The Delicious Blog is the official blog of the social bookmarking service, covering its ownership changes, redesigns, and outages.
HN links it for official word on the service's status, as when commenters pointed to it to counter shutdown reports.
I'm fairly active on Twitter. I'm also a raving fan, enough to pay for a premium version if it were ever created. Features I would pay for: Personal analytics dashboard, some sort of auto-bookmarking/categorizing of my tweets with links, searchable archive of not only my tweets but the content I linked to, and more.
There are 3rd party apps that do something similar to archiving/auto-bookmarking: Trunkly was awesome, then they were acquired and integrated into Delicious (http://blog.delicious.com/2012/03/tweet-a-link-save-a-link/) and that is very cool. There are also amazing apps that provide personal social analytics. See http://www.simplymeasured.com. I'm on Twitter or using a Twitter client a lot. If these features were native to Twitter, they would be worth paying for.
I doubt I will switch to, or use, yet another social sharing platform similar to Twitter, let alone pay for it without having experienced it. Getting my friends to take the early adoption route alongside me seems unlikely too. Maybe a few of my friends would join, but a large majority would not.
Too many social networks have failed or aren't useful enough to me to invest any amount in. I won't be investing my money in a promise for something similar to another social network any time soon.
They've been slopping about for the past several months, and it looks like they've finally given up on it.
Really, how difficult is it to have a site and service that stores links and tags? Even at a high volume of data, in this day and age it should be trivial unless the money's not there to support it.
According to http://blog.delicious.com/ , they cancelled the premium service in January, attempted to monetize it again via sponsored links in RSS feeds in March, failed to revise the site successfully in March, then had "site problems", and finally said this month that they would be transitioning back to del.icio.us, but they seem to have been unable to do that either. Now the site's either down or stating that it has too much traffic. They've completely screwed the pooch.
It's really sad.
http://blog.delicious.com/
The blog has since only hosted two single web pages (http://blog.delicious.com/index.htm and http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/whats-next-for-delicious.html)
I was already not very impressed that they were bought by yahoo years ago, as I thought that yahoo! is not the right place to host (I used http://del.icio.us, with the dots, since 2005). I was and am also a pro user of http://flickr.com and wonder if my huge collection there would be wiped clean in 2011.
Panic spreading.
Just a side note, I hate the "from yahoo!" part of the logo (on both sites). Well, they should have done that much earlier, and I hope that some companies with big muscles could save them. I really don't want to switch boat.
Domain hacks are funny but counterproductive and problematic in the long run. Domain hacks involving digits are a marketing problem squared.
See the reasoning behind the switch from del.icio.us to Delicious.com:
So why did we switch to delicious.com? We’ve seen a zillion different confusions and misspellings of “del.icio.us” over the years (for example, “de.licio.us”, “del.icio.us.com”, and “del.licio.us”), so moving to delicious.com will make it easier for people to find the site and share it with their friends.
http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2008/07/oh-happy-day.html
I just discovered this when I tried to bookmark something on Delicious. I am positively surprised that they actually asked me if I wanted to give my personal information to Avos. This is the way it should be.
One critical note though, I went to http://blog.delicious.com/ expecting to read about this, but there is nothing about the acquisition there. If this does not warrant a blog post, what is a blog for?
Note that they've pulled down all the other delicious blog posts; the source for this page still has a "previous" link in the source to 'http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/tags-return-to-the-bookmarklet.html, but it's gone, as are the rss and atom feeds, etc.